![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | A book of curious facts of general interest relating to almost everything under the sun - Williams, Henry, of Boston
Keywords: Curiosities
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| The book of wonders; or, pictorial miscellany for the family circle - Forrester, Mark, pseud
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders; Curiosities
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| The World of wonders: a record of things wonderful in nature, science, and art ..
Keywords: Wonder; Curiosities
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| Greatest wonders of the world - Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders; Landscape
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| Curiosities for the ingenious; selected from the most authentic treasures of nature, science and art, biography, history, and general literature - Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders
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| La Lanterne magique : journal des choses curieuses et amusantes (Volume 1)
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Keywords: Curiosities and wonders; Amusements
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| Greatest wonders of the world - Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders; Landscape
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| The hundred wonders of the world and of the three kingdoms of nature : described according to the latest and best authorities and illustrated by engravings - Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir, 1767-1840
Book digitized by Google from the library of New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders
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| The wonders of nature and art, containing an account of the most remarkable and curious animals, and mineral and vegetable productions in the world; also, the manufactures, buildings, and wonderful inventions of man - Hutton, W
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders
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| The wonders of the world; a popular and authentic account of the marvels of nature and of man as they exist to-day (Volume 2) - Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders
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| The wonders of the world; a popular and authentic account of the marvels of nature and of man as they exist to-day (Volume 1) - Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders
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| Choix de curiosités tirées des trésors de la nature, des sciences et arts, biographie, histoire, etc.
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Keywords: Curiosities and wonders
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| Chambers's repository of instructive and amusing tracts - Chambers, William, 1800-1883
Each section numbered and paged separately
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders
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| Curiosities for the ingenious : selected from the most authentic treasures of nature, science and art, biography, history, and general literature..
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders
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| The twenty-one wonders of the world : with illustrations of the fourteen existing subjects - Sharp, Sara S
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders
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| Wonders of nature, as seen and described by famous writers - Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders; Landscape
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| The cabinet of curiosities, or, Wonders of the world displayed, forming a repository of whatever is remarkable in the regions of nature and art, extraordinary events, and eccentric biography
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders
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| Encyclopedia of natural and artificial wonders and curiosities including a full and authentic description of remarkable and astonishing places, beings, animals, customs, experiments, phenomena, etc., of both ancient and modern times, in all parts of the globe : comprising correct accounts of the most wonderful freaks of nature and arts of man - Platts, John, 1775-1837
952 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders
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| Greatest wonders of the world - Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders; Landscape
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| The queer, the quaint, the quizzical : a cabinet for the curious - Stauffer, Frank H. (Francis Henry), 1832-1895
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Keywords: Curiosities and wonders
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| Greatest wonders of the world - Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
On cover: Greatest natural wonders of the world
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders; Landscapes
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| Prodigiosas appariçoens & successos espantosos vistos no presente anno de 1716. E nos fins do passado em varias partes do mundo - Unknown
12 p. ; 20 cm. (12mo) Compiled and translated by José Freire de Monterroyo Mascarenhas (cf. Silva) from various newspaper items and letters
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders; Nature
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| Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts - Chambers, William, 1800-1883
Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders; Anecdotes
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| Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining knowledge (Volume Vols. 2-4 (nos. 34-65)) - Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871
Each section numbered and paged separately
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders
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| Greatest wonders of the world - Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders; Landscape
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| Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena - Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
Toole-Stott, R. Conjuring
Keywords: Magic; Miracles; Curiosities and wonders
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| Dell'historia natvrale di Ferrante Imperato napoletano libri XXVIII : nella qvale ordinatamente si tratta della diuersa condition di miniere e pietre : con alcune historie di piante & animali, sin'hora non date in luce - Imperato, Ferrante, 1550-1625
Printer's device on t.p. (a crocodile) assigned by Zappella to Felice Stigliola, rather than Costantino Vitale (Marche dei tipografi, fig. 353). The double-page plate depicts Imperato's natural history cabinet. Tail-pieces, initials
Keywords: Natural history; Cabinets of curiosities
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| Parley's panorama; or, Curiosities of nature and art, history and biography; a new edition, with improvements to the latest date; - Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860
"Sold only by subscription."
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders; Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum; or, Magazine of remarkable characters. Including all the curiosities of nature and art, from the remotest period to the present time, drawn from every authentic source. Illustrated with one hundred and twenty-four engravings. Chiefly taken from rare and curious prints or original drawings (Volume 1) - Kirby, R. S
First copy of Vol. 2 defective: p.201-208 missing; p.265-272 repeated
Keywords: Characters and characteristics; Curiosities and wonders
Downloads: 1,465 |  |
| Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum; or, Magazine of remarkable characters. Including all the curiosities of nature and art, from the remotest period to the present time, drawn from every authentic source. Illustrated with one hundred and twenty-four engravings. Chiefly taken from rare and curious prints or original drawings (Volume 6) - Kirby, R. S
First copy of Vol. 2 defective: p.201-208 missing; p.265-272 repeated
Keywords: Characters and characteristics; Curiosities and wonders
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| Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum; or, Magazine of remarkable characters. Including all the curiosities of nature and art, from the remotest period to the present time, drawn from every authentic source. Illustrated with one hundred and twenty-four engravings. Chiefly taken from rare and curious prints or original drawings (Volume 3) - Kirby, R. S
First copy of Vol. 2 defective: p.201-208 missing; p.265-272 repeated
Keywords: Characters and characteristics; Curiosities and wonders
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| Seven wonders of the world - Thomas, Lowell, 1892-1981
Keywords: Voyages and travels; Curiosities and wonders
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| Entwurff einer historischen Architectur : in Abbildung unterschiedener berühmten Gebäude, des Alterthums, und fremder Völcker, umb aus den Geschicht-Büchern, Gedächtnüss-Müntzen, Ruinen, und eingeholten wahrhafften Abrissen, vor Augen zu stellen. In dem ersten Buche. Die von der Zeit vergrabene Bau-Arten der alten Jüden, Egÿptier, Sÿrer, Perser, und Griechen. In dem andren. Alte unbekante römische. In dem dritten. Einige fremde in- und ausser-europäische, als der Araber, und Türcken, etc. auch neue persianische, siamitische, sinesische und japonesische Gebäude. In dem vierten. Einige Gebäude von des Autoris Erfindung und Zeichnung - Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard, 1656-1723
Design Digitized: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Library’s Rare Books, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, was supported in part by funds from the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) through the New York State Regional Bibliographic Databases Program. statement of responsibility: Alles mit grosser Mühe gezeichnet, und auf eigene Unkosten herausgegeben, von der kaiserl. Maj. Oberbauinspectorn, Johann Bernhard Fischers, von Erlachen ; auch kurtzen teutschen und frantzösischen B...
Keywords: Architecture; Architecture, Baroque; Curiosities and wonders
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| Treasure spots of the world : a selection of the chief beauties and wonders of nature and art - Woodbury, Walter B. (Walter Bentley), 1834-1885
Introductory text by Francis Clement Naish
Keywords: Landscape photography; Architectural photography; Curiosities and wonders
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| Curiosités physiologiques : les hommes-phénomènes : force, agilité, adresse : hercules, coureurs, sauteurs, nageurs, plongeurs, gymnastes, équilibristes, disloqués, jongleurs, avaleurs de sabres, tireurs - Guyot-Daubès
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders; Physiology; Physiology; Athletes
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| Marvelous wonders of the whole world being an account of thrilling adventures, famous sights, celebrated voyages, and renowned explorations and discoveries in all parts of the globe .. - Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders; Voyages and travels
Downloads: 238 |  |
| Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum; or, Magazine of remarkable characters. Including all the curiosities of nature and art, from the remotest period to the present time, drawn from every authentic source. Illustrated with one hundred and twenty-four engravings. Chiefly taken from rare and curious prints or original drawings (Volume 2) - Kirby, R. S
First copy of Vol. 2 defective: p.201-208 missing; p.265-272 repeated
Keywords: Characters and characteristics; Curiosities and wonders
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| Le iardin, et cabinet poetique de Paul Contant, apoticaire de Poictiers - Contant, Paul, ca. 1570-1632
Signatures: a-b c(-c4) A-N
Keywords: Botany; Natural history; Curiosities and wonders
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| A handy book of curious information : comprising strange happenings in the life of men and animals, odd statistics, extraordinary phenomena and out of the way facts concerning the wonderlands of the earth - Walsh, William Shepard, 1854-1919
The metadata below describe the original scanning. Follow the "All Files: HTTP" link in the "View the book" box to the left to find XML files that contain more metadata about the original images and the derived formats (OCR results, PDF etc.). See also the What is the directory structure for the texts? FAQ for information about file content and naming conventions.
Keywords: Encyclopedias and dictionaries; Curiosities and wonders
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| A museum of wonders : and what the young folks saw there, explained in many pictures - Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937
Pictorial paper boards with cloth shelfback
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders; Sideshows; Stories in rhyme
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| Wonders of nature as seen and described by famous writers - Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
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Keywords: Curiosities and wonders; Landscape; Voyages and travels
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| Kirby's wonderful and eccentric museum; or, Magazine of remarkable characters. Including all the curiosities of nature and art, from the remotest period to the present time, drawn from every authentic source. Illustrated with one hundred and twenty-four engravings. Chiefly taken from rare and curious prints or original drawings (Volume 4) - Kirby, R. S
First copy of Vol. 2 defective: p.201-208 missing; p.265-272 repeated
Keywords: Characters and characteristics; Curiosities and wonders
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| Prodigiorvm ac ostentorvm chronicon : quae praeter naturae ordinem, motum, et operationem, et in svperioribus & his inferioribus mundi regionibus, ab exordio mundi usque ad haec nostra tempora, acciderunt ... - Lykosthenes, Konrad, 1518-1561
Title continues: Quod portentorum genus non temere euenire solet, sed humano generi exhibitum, seueritatem iramq́[ue] Dei aduersus scelera, atq[ue] magnas in mundo uicissitudines portendit. Partim ex probatis fideq[ue] dignis authoribus Grȩcis, atque Latinis: partim etiam ex multorum annorum propria obseruatione, summa fide, studio ac sedulitate, adiectis etiam rerum omnium ueris imaginibus
Keywords: Monsters; Animals, Mythical; Curiosities and wonders
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| Franc. Ern. Bruckmanni, med. doct. acad. caesar. nat. cur. et soc., reg. Pruss. Scient. Colleg. et practic. Wolffenb. Epistola itineraria I-[XII] .. - Brückmann, Franz Ernst, 1697-1753
Illustrated with engraved plates
Keywords: Natural history; Curiosities and wonders; Miracles
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| A journey of discovery all around our house : or, The interview : a companion volume to "Enquire within upon everything." - Philp, Robert Kemp, 1819-1882
Book digitized by Google from the library of University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders; Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| Septem mirabilia orbis et vrbis Romae et Florentinae civitatis : cvm epytaph. pvl - Albertini, Francesco, fl. 1493-1510
Imprint from colophon, b3r. Dedication by Franciscus Albertinus to Manuel I, King of Portugal, [a]1v-2r. On b4v Mazzocchi responds to the author's request not to leave the last page empty by listing the 7 chief cities of Italy with their epithets, 7 wise men of antiquity, 7 kings of Rome, etc
Keywords: Seven wonders of the world; Curiosities and wonders; Curiosities and wonders
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| Parley's panorama, or, Curiosities of nature and art, history and biography - Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860, editor
New ed. with improvements to the latest date; "Sold only by subscription."
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders -- Early works to 1900; Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| The Glyptic; or, Musee phusee glyptic: a scrap book of jottings from Stratford-on-Avon and elsewhere, with an attempt at description of Henry Jones's museum - Jarvis, John William
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Keywords: Jones, Henry, of Stratford-upon-Avon; Curiosities and wonders
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| The book of curiosities : containing ten thousand wonders and curiosities of nature and art... - Platts, John, 1775-1837
First American ed.; First published in London, 1822, under the title, The book of curiosities; or, Wonders of the world
Keywords: Curiosities and wonders -- Early works to 1900; Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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| The Glyptic; or, Musee phusee glyptic: a scrap book of jottings from Stratford-on-Avon and elsewhere, with an attempt at description of Henry Jone's museum - Jarvis, John William
Keywords: Jones, Henry, of Stratford-upon-Avon; Curiosities and wonders
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